Olivia's first week home

Olivia is 11 days old! Time has been flying! It is our one week anniversary of her being home! Things are definitely different, but we love it!! We've had to get used to waking up a couple of times in the middle of the night, changing many, many diapers, drinking more coffee (BJ), taking millions of pictures of the same baby, having tons of visitors, taking our dates to BabiesRus, etc. Olivia is actually a really good baby. She already knows her nights and days...she has quite a bit of "awake time" in the day, and we have to wake her up every four hours in the night to feed her. She also is a great eater! She has made transitioning into being a mother very pleasant! We even took her out on her first outing last night...PF Changs and the mall! Of course her first outing has to include the mall!! She was really good too, until she realized she hadn't eaten in 3 hours! Then we had to cut the night short! Anyways, here are some pictures of her first week at home!

Daddy reading Olivia The Little PiggyPlaying with her toys!Our first outing to PF Changs and the Mall...she slept all through dinner!Napping with Daddy. Daddy wasn't really napping...and no she doesn't sleep in the bed with us!Fast asleep...this is always the result after feeding her!Olivia has her own snuggie! It helps her sleep for 4 hours at a time, so mommy and daddy can get the most amount of sleep!So cute! They take the best pictures!

Olivia June Sanders

Olivia was born last night at 6:33 pm, and she weighs 7 lbs. She is 19.5 inches long, and has strawberry blonde hair! She is absolutely perfect!!

Labor started at 1:30am and lasted until 6pm when we finished with a C-section. The whole process was unexpected, but we know that everything worked out for the good of me and Olivia. We are all well, but we both did have a fever during labor, so Olivia has to spend the first 24 hours in the NICU. We aren't too worried, because they say that she is making a lot of progress and is the best baby in there!! They also say people pay a lot of money for hair like hers!! Her fever has dropped, but we are still waiting on her blood cultures. I am getting all of my IV's out tonight and get to shower!!!

Daddy got to give Olivia her first bath today and the grandparents got to observe! It was the cutest thing! He spiked her hair out like crazy! Oh, he also got to change her first diaper...most of you know what I'm talking about!! ahha. Anyways, we are so excited to be blessed with this little angel. Please be praying for her to keep her fever down and to get out of the NICU so we can take her home! Also, please pray for my healing from the surgery!